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...Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster, urged the congregation to give thanks for the late monarch’s “commitment to the Commonwealth”....
...“I like the Queen but I’d get rid of the monarchy. I’m more of an Elizabethist than a monarchist.”...
...feature multiple short, separate prayers, allowing the representatives of multiple Christian denominations — including the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, Cardinal Vincent Nichols...
...Vivica Steele, a drag queen who performs on Nashville’s famous Broadway strip, said she now hires a private car to drive her to and from shows out of concern for her safety....
...As I checked in to the Queens Hotel, which had overlooked the square since the 1930s, I learnt that it had been made over during the pandemic closure....
...I can understand why Selfridges and Harvey Nichols expanded outside of London, but they took those decisions many years ago,” Athron said....
...“Our sequinned, crystal and beaded pieces are made in India,” says Khemlani, whose collections retail at Harrods and Harvey Nichols....
...Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham said it had had to postpone planned surgery for two days....
...“You can bend the rules plenty when you get upstairs,” says Staten Island’s Tess McGill, as played by Melanie Griffith in Mike Nichols’ excellent Working Girl....
...Claire Foy and Matt Smith, who played the Queen and Prince Philip in the popular Netflix series The Crown, drop the regal trappings to play a young, middle-class couple with a huge dilemma in Duncan Macmillan...
...A 16-year-old would-be drag queen, he perches, daydreaming, at the back of his humdrum Sheffield school class, his bottle-blonde hair and pink socks making him stand out like a tropical fledgling in a drab...
...His very existence — and that of his Queen’s Medal-winning work — thumbs a nose at notions of racial and geographical purity. Cook-up rice is a dish from Guyana....
...L/Uniform x Sisley vanity case, £1,275; exclusive to Selfridges Beauty queen dreams: this Christmas, Sisley Paris has collaborated with L/Uniform, the French manufacturer of canvas bags, to create a limited...
...Victoria in 1850 and later raised as the queen’s goddaughter....
...Photographs: Clive Nichols/Getty Images; Martin Hughes-Jones/Alamy; John Glover/Alamy; Jonathan Buckley/Gap Photos...
...Bakerloo, eventually became the official name, to the disgust of the Railway Magazine which denounced it as “a gutter title”; even though Bakerloo was the invention of the distinguished-sounding Captain GHF Nichols...
...Halfords, the bike shop that is much the biggest company in the index, has been around since Queen Victoria’s reign....
...The crowd sang “God Save The Queen” — a reverse of the tradition that the away team’s anthem is played first....
...The researchers closely observed wild mongooses in Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park from 1997 to 2013....
...I’ve always voted Labour,” says Brian Nichol, 72, a joiner out walking his dog. “And I don’t like his [Nigel Farage’s] policies really. He wants to come out of Europe. I think that’s a bad idea....
...The Queen is to attend a service of commemoration at Crathie Kirk in Aberdeenshire later on Monday and the Duke of Edinburgh will attend a separate service in Sandringham....
...“Before I went to the Royal College, I was ‘Monochrome Girl’ and I came out the ‘Colour Queen’. I won a bunch of competitions and sponsorships from Swarovski and from Saga Furs....
...Archbishop Nichols told the BBC: “There was no announcement in any party manifesto, no green paper, no statement in the Queen’s Speech and yet here we are on the verge of primary legislation....
...A “Queen Mum” chunky, low-heeled shoe is a must; Stella McCartney has one with a beautiful tortoiseshell heel....
...In 2003, Isa Allan, a tea lady at Scottish Enterprise, was given an MBE by the Queen for being the “heart and soul” of the place....
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